Topics

• Modulated structures
• Composite structures
• Hypermaterials - quasicrystals and approximants
• Metallurgy/Alloys
• Complex Metallic Alloys
• Magnetic structures
• Stability and phase transitions
• Surfaces, thin films and 2-D aperiodic structures
• Disorder and defects
• Self-assembly
• Manipulated assembly
• Mesoscopic systems
• Aperiodic chemical and biological crystal
• Mathematics of aperiodic structures
• Symmetry of aperiodic structures
• Tiling descriptions
• Higher-dimensional descriptions of aperiodic systems
• Topological aspects of aperiodicity
• Electronic properties
• Magnetic properties
• Mechanical properties
• Dynamics - phonons and phasons
• Thermal properties
• Novel phenomena (e.g. aperiodicity and strongly correlated electron systems, superconductivity)
• New methods of investigationProgress in instrumentation
• Scattering methods and diffraction theory
• Diffuse scattering
• Data processing methods
• Solution, refinement and interpretation of structure
• Aperiodic systems under extreme conditions: temperature, pressure, and magnetic field